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After the death of Private Aristakes Azatyan in one of the central units of the Defence Army, investigators opened a case on bringing to suicide, the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has stated.

Zamira Gadjieva, the wife of Djakhangir Gadjiev, the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), has been placed in a detention facility in London. She is charged with money embezzlement.

A protest action against the Forum of LGBT-Christians of Eastern Europe and Central Asia was held in Yerevan. Valery Osipyan, the head of the Armenian Police, said that this forum will not take place in Armenia because of security risks.

On November 6-7, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled in two villages, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The Chechen leadership has failed to spread the practice of public apologies to Ramzan Kadyrov over Ingushetia; however, inside Chechnya, this practice remains efficient; and the authorities are not going to abandon it, the political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

A Moscow court has re-qualified the charge to Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, the guards of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP, from extortion into arbitrariness and freed them from punishment.

Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered to erect a memorial complex in the place of the former village of Khaibakh in the Galanchozh District of Chechnya, where several hundred locals were killed during the deportation of Chechens. The construction of a memorial in non-inhabited area after the demolition of the monument to deportation victims in Grozny is illogical, residents of Grozny believe.

Participants of a march held in Baku have expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that officials had refused to pay compensations for deaths of their relatives during the Karabakh conflict.

Today, Arkady Vardanyan, a political analyst, sentenced to 10 years in prison, has been released from the Vardashen Prison.

Today, soldier Aristakes Azatyan has got a fatal gunshot wound under unclear circumstances, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, who was serving his sentence in the case on the "Marsh of Million Masks", was released from prison after the amnesty announced in Armenia.

On November 5, at a field meeting in the Galanchozh District, Ramzan Kadyrov announced that within a year of the Galanchozh District, the municipality would carry out large-scale work to restore infrastructure and construct social and tourist facilities. The Galanchozh District will be fully electrified and gasified.

Over the past 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani forces were shelled 25 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has dismissed complaints about the verdict to Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Adam Dekkushev, natives of Karachay-Cherkessia, earlier found by the court in Chechnya guilty of shelling 15 Russian soldiers in Chechnya in 1999.

Rehabilitation of Karachays deported 75 years ago to Central Asia and Kazakhstan did not provoke territorial conflicts, but it remained morally unfinished. Russia has not yet given a legal assessment of the Stalin's repressions against peoples, historians believe.

On November 5, on the "Imedi" TV Channel, Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the "Georgian Dream" Party, addressed residents of Georgia. In his address, he focused on Grigol Vashadze, a candidate from the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who translated the politician's statement.

The man named in the report of the Chechen television as a representative of the Ingush clan (teip) of Nalgievs was not authorized to go to Ramzan Kadyrov, said Ismail Nalgiev, an activist.

After the Armenia's withdrawal of Yuri Khachaturov from the post of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a representative of Belarus is claiming this position, informed sources have stated.

Arman Djandjugazyan has been sentenced to 22 years of imprisonment after killing a soldier from the Russian military base in Gyumri, reports today a court official.

Sonya Cherkesova, a resident of Nalchik, has recorded a video appeal in which she asked to transfer her son Aslan Cherkesov, sentenced for killing football fan Yegor Sviridov, out of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The woman claims her son is being tortured and she has no chance to visit him.